Easy how to use Eagle

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:48:39 GMT

I have a couple of eagle design that I need to convert.

Downloaded The SW som time ago, installed but not started yet, version is 8.1 I think.

Do I need a library to open my design files and stor then in an ascii file format?

Is ther any Scandinavians the I can call for som support if I need to?

Re: Easy how to use Eagle

one-of-the-robs — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:28:22 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm not entirely clear what you need to convert. Is it that you have some old designs in pre-V6 Eagle format, and you want them in the XML format? If so, it should just be a case of loading them into V8 and saving again. You may hit some issues with inconsistencies between board and schematic, though, as V5 and earlier were a bit slacker on some tests than V7 on. I've hit issues where V4 allowed a BAS16 diode to be linked to diodes.lbr on the board but semicon-smd-ipc.lbr in the schematic, and was quite happy with it. V8 objects to that but it's fairly easy to fix.

As to whether you "need a library", if I understand your question right, then no, you don't. The information from the libraries that you need is embedded in the .sch and .brd files already.

If you want to make use of the Fusion 360 integration, then you will need to create a "managed library", but that can be started by exporting a project library and converting that to be "managed". I've not made use of this myself, though, so I'll leave it to others to comment further.

Regards,

Rob

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